Real-World AI Governance Center
Responsible AI for High-Stakes Human Systems
AI is already making and shaping decisions inside child welfare, public benefits, casework, and other systems where the people affected have the least power to contest an error. This Center treats that as a governance problem: not "is the model good?" but "does this whole sociotechnical system (model, people, records, pressures) catch its errors faster than it spreads them?"
Five sections, one discipline: concepts in the Field Guide, documented histories in the Domain Atlas, levers in the Practice Library, stress testing in the PAN Lab, and every empirical claim ledgered in the Evidence Registry. Oversight puts that same discipline into play, a story-driven governance game built on the PAN Lab engine.
The Center
The Real-World AI Governance Center
Five evidence-disciplined sections, one rule: nothing is claimed without support. Start anywhere.
Field Guide
Understand“What do I need to understand?”
Concepts and mental models: sociotechnical systems, the robustness gap, error propagation, and governing under deployment pressure.
Domain Atlas
Domains“How does this show up in specific domains?”
How AI governance shows up in social services and other high-stakes human systems, across 79 documented real-world case files.
Practice Library
Practice“What can institutions do?”
Actionable governance patterns and institutional controls: what each changes, who can pull it, and what can backfire.
PAN Lab
PAN Lab“What happens if we test this idea under pressure?”
Scenario-based governance stress testing: explore how governance choices reshape error-flow pathways under institutional pressure.
Evidence Registry
Evidence“What supports this claim?”
Every empirical claim on this site, mapped to its sources: academic references and real-world grounding documentation.
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Engage“How can we work with 1023AI?”
Advisory and fractional leadership, governance diagnosis, scenario-based stress-testing engagements, talks, and research collaboration.
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Oversight
Interactive“Can I learn this by doing?”
A story-driven governance simulation, built on the PAN Lab engine: run a fictional oversight desk and feel how the same failures compound.
AI in the Room
Community“Who else should be at the table?”
A national codesign community bringing frontline practitioners into AI governance for social services.
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Practice“Who is behind this?”
The practice, the method, and the research-and-engineering lineage behind the Center, from modeling single neurons to governing capable AI.
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Evidence
The evidence discipline, in short
Every empirical claim on this site is a ledger entry mapped to sources synced from the PAN reference library, never added by hand. Conceptual framing is labeled as framing; each PAN Lab model organization is calibrated to a documented real-world deployment from the cited evidence; and statements still awaiting a source carry a visible "citation pending" badge rather than quiet confidence.
The full registry, including what's pending, is public at Evidence Registry.
Every claim here is ledgered and every pattern names what can backfire. If your organization is navigating one of these systems, the next step is a conversation about its actual shape.
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